First edition, one of 331 copies; 3 vols, small folio (35 x 25.5. cm); 1092pp; with numerous illustrations throughout; original publisher's cloth,...

Heraldry of the Veneto.. Vincenzo Coronelli depicts in this small volumes 78 arms of the cities of the Veneto region, (drawn by the cosmographer P....

By the most important historian of late antiquity. One of the earliest printed editions of Eusebius of Caesarea's Historia ecclesiastica, translate...

With original artwork. from the publisher's collection - original drawings for the work by three artists.Les Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles is a collecti...

With an extra suite of plates & original watercolours. One of 50 copies with an extra suite of plates and a copper plate. This copy also inclu...

Fine hand-coloured copy of this fully engraved work, printed on papier verge de Hollande extra-fort - one of these 'rarissimes exemplaires dont le...

A finely bound example of the eleven extant comedies of the ancient Greek playwright Aristophanes (446-386 BCE), together with the scholia and ext...

Rare first edition of Taisnier's major work on chiromancy (palmistry) and astrology. USTC lists just three copies in UK institutions.Born in c. 15...

Second separate edition of Dionysius' didactic compendium of geographical descriptions of the known world, translated from the original Greek in p...

This beautiful set has been bound by the art deco binder Henri Noulhac (1866-1931). Noulhac set up his workshop at 10 rue de Buci in Paris in 189...

Fine, fresh example, attractively bound, of the most elaborate history of world religion published up to that time, profusely illustrated with mor...

A unique example extra-illustrated by Charles Huard with two copper plates and numerous original drawings by multiple artists. A large collection ...

Limited edition - one of 100 copies . A finely bound example with intricate onlay designs inspired by the story. Limited edition, one of 100 copies...

A handsomely bound example of Brunelleschi's illustrated edition of three works by the French dramatist, poet & novelist Alfred de Musset, kno...

This is the second edition of an important French Restoration polemic. Duplanyl was a master of mosaic/onlay binding.Second edition, 3 vols, tall ...

First dated edition. The first dated edition of the most well-known of Erasmus' works. It followed the undated Paris printing by Gilles de Gourmont...

Second edition of this scarce work on the prophet Muhammed by Henri de Boulainvilliers. This book is a thorough history of Muslim and Islamic cult...

First edition of this intriguing work by Vico that chronicles the deeds of one of the most famous Neapolitan men of arms of the seventeenth centur...

Rare first edition of Baldi's translation into Italian of Heron of Alexandria's Automata, a treatise on self-propelled machines which enable wonde...

Editio princeps. The rare editio princeps of this famous treatise containing a compendium of all the culinary literature that appeared during the s...

Rare fourth edition. Mela's Cosmographia is the earliest surviving Latin work on geography and the only treatise devoted exclusively to that subje...

A collection of, for the most part, previously unpublished Latin poems of Christian interest. This work was the first published by Hieronymus [Ger...